Real Estate Mendocino – Real Estate Magazine

Fort Bragg's Pioneer Merchants--The Shafsky Family

Issue 797, Published August 28, 2025

In the 1800s, the four Shafsky brothers made their way from Moldova to Fort Bragg and established a small business with a horse-drawn buggy full of wares to sell to loggers and fishermen who had settled here.

Margaret Fox...An Improbable Life

Issue 787, Published October 28, 2024

Margaret Fox came to Mendocino in 1975 with no formal culinary education, no experience in commercial cooking, without even having worked as a waitress and—improbably—put the Cafe Beaujolais on the food-world's fickle map and forever changed the way we eat on the Mendocino Coast. Margaret recalls her life as an inadvertent trailblazing chef-entrepreneur.